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GUI-CEval: A Hierarchical and Comprehensive Chinese Benchmark for Mobile GUI Agents

arXiv 2603.15039 ↗First posted 16 Mar 2026cs.CVcited by 3

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Abstract (arXiv)

Recent progress in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has enabled mobile GUI agents capable of visual perception, cross-modal reasoning, and interactive control. However, existing benchmarks are largely English-centric and fail to capture the linguistic and interaction characteristics of the Chinese mobile ecosystem. They also focus on isolated skills such as GUI grounding or offline agent, lacking a unified and fine-grained framework to assess the full capability chain from perception to execution. To address this gap, we introduce GUI-CEval, the first comprehensive benchmark for Chinese mobile GUI agents, built entirely on physical device environments. GUI-CEval spans 201 mainstream apps across four device types and adopts a two-level structure that evaluates both atomic abilities and realistic application-level performance along five dimensions: perception, planning, reflection, execution, and evaluation. All data are collected and verified through multi-stage manual processes to ensure authenticity and reproducibility. Extensive experiments on 20 representative MLLMs and multi-agent systems show that while models such as Qwen2.5-VL and UI-TARS perform competitively, most MLLMs still exhibit clear weaknesses in reflective decision-making and post-action self-evaluation, limiting their reliability in real-world interactions. We hope GUI-CEval provides a comprehensive and interpretable benchmark to guide capability diagnosis and advance the development of Chinese mobile GUI agents.

Key facts. Cited by 3 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Embodied and 3D vision-language models, one of 16 directions in Multimodal LLMs / vision-language models. Builds on 41 of its 46 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 16 Mar 2026.

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  1. 2025Qwen2.5-VL Technical Reportcited by 5,418
  2. 2023Grounding DINO: Marrying DINO with Grounded Pre-Training for Open-Set Object Detectioncited by 3,274
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